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Monday, December 17, 2012

Dear Shirley, Bryan, Mike and All You Other Sick Losers: Oh Do F#&@ Off

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Abby Zimet

Shockingly, or not, even as grieving parents in Sandy Hook prepare to bury their children, hate-mongering right-wingers continue to spout their idiotic venom. Bryan Fischer of the American Family (sic) Association charge the carnage was the result of the ban on school prayer - something along the lines of how God is "a gentleman" and doesn't go where He (sic) isn't wanted - Mike Huckabee blames liberal godlessness, smart phones and gay marriage, and the Tea Party Nation blames pot, sex, no spanking, foul-mouthed teens, black people and the movie Django Unchained. The final insult to decency and coherence came from the demented Westboro/Phelps clan, who announced via hashtags like #GodSentTheShooter and #FagMarriageDoomsCT that they would picket funerals in Newtown "to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment." R-i-g-h-t. Refreshingly, people have fought back. Westboro's Twitter accounts were flooded with furious, dismissive, profane and witty responses; Anonymous promptly launched#OpWestboro and posted the group's personal contact info, someone - allegedly renowned teen hackerCosmo the God, who thus appears to have violated his parole - hacked Phelps' Twitter account, and a We the People petition to label Westboro a hate group has amassed almost 160,000 signatures in two days. They needed just 25,000 to proceed. Online, no more Mr/Ms Nice Guy.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing."

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Tom-Joad-like, celebrity chef and Spanish immigrant José Andrés has opened a pop-up kitchen in D.C. to help feed thousands of federal workers being stiffed by the Man-Baby-In-Chief. Andrés' non-profit World Central Kitchen, which has fed millions of disaster victims in Puerto Rico and around the globe, served almost 10,000 meals in two days, with long lines of tearful, angry people grateful for a hot meal. Andrés' homespun, humane mantra: "What's good for you, must be good for all."

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